Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Tenlee's Birthday Party

This year Tenlee wanted to have a Tinkerbell/Fairy party.  I wanted it to be more woodland fairy than actually Tinkerbell. As I was setting everything up she came over and put her hands on her hips. I could tell she was checking everything out. I asked her if she liked it and she told me "well yes, but I think I want a Cinderella party now". I told her too late, this was going to have to work. Then she smiled and told me she loved it...especially all of the pink things. 
I saw a picture of a cake I wanted to make for the party. The one I saw used purple food coloring and it was like 4 or 5 layers high. I decided to make it a little smaller and it of course had to be pink! It wasn't perfect but I absolutly loved how it turned out!!!!



Daddy always gets her flowers for her birthday
 Good morning birthday girl!
Baking cookies
 Getting her 5 spankins from Nana and Papa
 She picked rice casserole for her birthday supper

 The boys got her the movie "Home"
 She loves having tea parties so I started collecting things
from goodwill this fall to back for her birthday

 I was so excited this summer when I found that silver
 tea set at Salvation Army on half price day.
 I asked her what she wanted for her birthday dessert and she said donuts
and sparkling grape juice in a big girl glass cup (she is so my daughter:) So we made
homemade donuts and watched her new movie to finish up her special day!












Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Tenlee is 5

I cannot believe that my little girl is 5 already!! It literally seems like yesterday that my mom looked at me with tears in her eyes and said "you have a little girl!!" and then they placed in her my arms and I instantly fell in love with the most beautiful baby girl. I never knew how much I could love someone until she was brought into our lives. She is the most thoughtful, kind, respectful, helpful, loving, and funny little girl. She loves pleasing you and doesn't like knowing she done something wrong. She is so ehlpful around the house, she LOVES being in the kitchen and baking anything! She is also a great helper with laundry. Her job is to put all of the towels and the kid's pajama's away and when she sees me folding laundry she immediatly starts putting things away, without me asking her to. She is also a second mommy to her little brother's. She is bossy with Kooper, but then at the same time she will geton her knees and grab his hands and talk very softly to him and explain something or tell him why she yelled at him. And with Tucker, she loves picking him up and holding him, and whenever she walks past him she always goes up to him and kisses him and then will sit and talk to him. It melts my heart seeing her love on them both, in very different ways:)

Her favorite things: Snow, playing Wii with daddy, animals-especially horses, baking, her Wiggles (her dog she has to sleep with), coloring, puzzles, shopping, being read to too, campfires, her babies Emma and Tatum, ANYTHING PRINCESS-She literally wears a princess dress almost everyday

I was inside with the baby and Tyler came up and told me that 
Tenlee was driving the bobcat..Papa is teaching her young
She loves to draw!! She drew our family and gave us all
yellow hair (blonde) and was so very proud of it!
 We had a girl's date night. We went out to eat at Applebee's and then we watched the new 
Cinderella movie at home in our pjs and popped some popcorn. We had so much fun!
 She planted these pumpkins this summer with papa and it was 
finally ready to pick. She was so excited at how big it had gotten. 
She was so excited that daddy got his first deer this fall, she cannot wait to 
go hunting next year with daddy and shoot one with her bow and arrow. 
 Her first night at Cubbies this year..she was so excited to start back up
One of her favorite things to do is help me in the kitchen. I am not the best cook and actually I don't really enjoy it so I let her help as much as she wants, even if a mess happens because I want her to grow up loving to cook and hopefully she will be a little better than I am:) 
She had so much fun staying up till midnight
 

  Oh, that is something I need now (She said this after seeing an ulta commercial with makeup)

Mom, look at my whole adventure of pine cones! (She was under a pine tree and saw dozens of pine cones) 

Sorry I would love to help you guys but I need to keep writing in my book (She said this when we asked her to help us snip beans) 

This is my friend mom. She came from heaven where she lives with Jesus She got hurt. She went back to the woods to go hunting and she hurt her leg. I told her to lay down and take a napy and she would feel better, and you know what mom...she feels all better!

Here's the deal mom...when you don't want to be sick you have to eat healthy..so...I'm hungry!

Mommy I don’t want you to go to Walmart in this weather.(super windy and dark out) I don’t like storms, but you know what Mommy, it’s ok cuz Jesus is with me EVERYWHERE!

Kooper comes up to me and says "Hi Kellie", I ask Tenlee if she told him my name. She said no and then a few seconds later said "I think Jesus told him your name mom".